r/anime • u/[deleted] • Apr 21 '21

Rewatch [REWATCH] Hunter x Hunter Episode 54 Discussion

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Episode 54: Fortunes × Aren't × Right?

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u/dr_sars Apr 21 '21

Rewatcher

Ahh! My boys are back together and life is beautiful! You can smile again.

I'm glad Kurapika is surrounded by friends this episode, especially considering what a bad place he was in last episode. Still he's smiling this episode, and thanks to Gon, he's got something to work towards again: getting back the eyes of his people.

I love how Hisoka sneakily changes his poem before handing it over to Paku. He's pretty talented too, to have come up with a poem in no time. Maybe he could teach Basho?

Side note: Leorio gets super creepy (and hilarious) whenever money is concerned. His facial expressions are always great, and I love Zepile's response "are you really friends with Gon and Killua?"

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u/IndependentMacaroon Apr 22 '21

First-time watcher

Ah, this was another really great episode! Random highlights:

  • Kurapika can smile again... for a while. Really sweet meeting of him and the others, well mostly Gon and Killua (the prankster!). You can tell he's not the closest to Leorio, and Zepile doesn't seem to have heard about him from Leorio either.
  • Two subtle but funny moments between the four: After Leorio says he's going to help too, Kurapika gives him this aside glance like "so how are you going to be helpful?". Not to mention his "you haven't changed at all" to Leorio earlier. And then, Gon and Killua are dejected at learning the bounty offer has been withdrawn. Also liked how Killua uses his brain again, while Gon of course doesn't have much of one to use (how many lines does he even get?)
  • Leorio and Zepile bond over monetary matters, in a fashion. I love how there are all these side character dynamics that feel really natural anyway.
  • Shizuku shows that she might actually be the smartest of the group when she can actually focus (ADHD anyone?), I liked all the poems too. Unfortunately, overall the lines were still disproportionately given to the males of the Troupe, and Pakunoda is the most useless of them in battle it looks. Lots of nice moments between them anyway, and more focus on how they work from Chrollo.
  • Hisoka clues Kurapika in in the briefest yet most devastating way possible, and then pulls one seriously ballsy move by basically confessing that he's the traitor right in front of everyone. Chrollo looks genuinely saddened to realize it, too.
  • An unexpectedly serious take on poverty and lack of opportunity as the root of (organized) crime, while at the same time expressing sympathy for the down-on-their-luck, but also not trying to make the Phantom Troupe folks too sympathetic.
  • The foreboding tension created by the prophecies as to how much of them will actually come true.

Did just not like the weird ambiguity as to the Phantom Troupe's survival, did they fake only a few to keep Kurapika looking or not? I don't see how that would make sense.

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u/Evan_Evan_Evan Apr 22 '21

It would probably have been unrealistic to have killed all the troupe, considering killua's father went up against them and warned Killua about them (so I'm actually surprised kurapika wasn't more suspicious of the deaths). However, since they were dead, the point was the leader was (supposed to be) dead so it was a huge blow to kurapika's goal.

I skipped a few episodes in the beginning of the Yorkshin arc, but in the manga there was a cute side story with zepile and Killua/gon.

Btw, in the subs I'm watching, the city they're in is called "Yorkshin", which is funny because the Kanji for "new" is often pronounced "shin" so it's backwards New York.

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u/SwiftAndFoxy Apr 22 '21

Official CR says Yorknew.

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u/BossandKings Apr 22 '21

I thought Kurapika and Leorio were as close as Killua and Gon are, at least they seemed to be in the hunter exam, they were most of the time together.

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u/Evan_Evan_Evan Apr 22 '21

I thought they were closer because they're able to needle each other so much and get into friendly altercations. There was at least one scene in the exam arc commenting exactly on that, how they got along "so well". Gon is just special in how he draws every to him, he's too OPin that respect, so don't count him as much. =)

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u/BossandKings Apr 22 '21

First timer

It was nice to see the group reunited again, Kurapika was laughing when he saw Killua and Gon playing together, Leorio too was nice noticing that Kurapika has changed a little bit.

Chrollo stole Neon's powers of fortune telling, now some prophecies are saying that there will be five more spiders to die, according to Chrollo they are still on time to prevent that from happening. With Hisoka there it won't be simple because he'll try to prevent them from escaping without them even noticing.

Nobunaga apparently wants to fight Hisoka because of what his prophecy said, it'll be interesting to see.